Showtime to re-air Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor on May 15
The inter-sport, lucrative pay-per-view collision between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor will be replayed on Showtime on May 15.
The “money fight” boxing match between undefeated boxing icon Floyd Mayweather and UFC superstar Conor McGregor from Aug. 26, 2017, will be replayed on Showtime on May 15 as part of the network’s Friday Showtime Boxing Classics series.
The historic event, which saw McGregor become the first MMA fighter to cross into boxing — having no professional boxing bouts to his record at that point — drew 4.4 million buys in the United States. This gave Mayweather vs. McGregor the second-most domestic pay-per-view buys in history, behind the 2015 clash between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
Mayweather, a five-division world champion, entered this bout 49-0, tied with Rocky Marciano for the longest undefeated streak by an active professional boxer. Prior to this bout, Mayweather had last competed in 2015. Four months after defeating Pacquiao, Mayweather retained the WBA (Super), WBC, The Ring and lineal welterweight titles with a unanimous decision win over Andre Berto.
McGregor, meanwhile, came into this bout as the then-UFC lightweight champion, having won the belt a little over nine months prior at UFC 205, the UFC’s first-ever event at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY. With that win, McGregor became the first UFC fighter to hold two weight divisions’ titles simultaneously and the third to win two UFC divisions’ titles at any given point in their career. In 2016, McGregor also headlined UFC 202 — rematching with Nate Diaz — which at the time broke a seven-year record for the most purchased event in the MMA promotion’s history.
The replay comes as part of Showtime Boxing Classics, which will present some of the network’s most historic fights every Friday night at 10 p.m. ET.
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